JOEL SCHECHTER

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"From the first moment I heard the sounds of super-station WABC-NY in the headphones, I knew that would be my life long passion." was 1959!!!

Not too many people are more into radio than Joel. The son of a radio operator in WWII, Joel, together with his dad, built a crystal radio at age 6. "From the first moment I heard the sounds of super-station WABC-NY in the headphones, I knew that would be my life long passion." Loving the music, and tracking the weekly Top Ten surveys all through the sixties, It was one Saturday afternoon in December of 1968 that Joel managed to get the chance to be invited into the studio during a radio show of DJ Dan Ingram, "regarded by many as the best Top 40 DJ of all time", according to Wikipedia. Totally hooked, Joel went off to college and became involved with the University of Hartford radio station WWUH-FM, starting as a production assistant, until eventually he was recruited as Station Manager his senior year. Reaching young adulthood precisely at the dawn of the disco age, Joel hung out at small clubs, listening to what was referred to at the time as 'bar music". This was the mid '70s. He began collecting 12" singles, had two turntables, a mixer, and even a mirrored ball, set up in his huge raw loft in lower Manhattan where he also lived. This was before the neighborhood became the present-day Soho. Spending time at NYC clubs like Flamingo, The Underground, Studio 54, Twelve West, The Monster, the Ice Palace, and Paradise Garage, Joel loved the influence of r & b and soul music into the dance world. Fast forward forty years, checking out the lists of radio stations available through iTunes, Joel gave a listen to a station called TSoNYC, and discovered a radio station he had been waiting for all these years. Chats on Facebook with TSoNYC's creator's alter ego Eld Russell led him to establish a friendship with the multi-talented creator and brain behind this whole venture, Danilo Braca aka danyb. With Joel's experience and training with business management, Joel has been able to look after much of the business end of TSoNYC